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  (This is the poster for Man of Steel .)       Man of Steel . I wonder if any Russians 🇷🇺, Georgians 🇬🇪, or Eastern Europeans over the age of 50 (maybe even 60) saw that title and immediately thought (before seeing that iconic S logo or any of the posters or trailers) that it was a biopic about Joseph Stalin since his nickname was the “Man of Steel.” I also wonder if that confusion over the nickname was one of the main inspirations for the comic book limited series, Superman: Red Son , where Superman (or Kal-El/Clark) lands in Soviet Russia ☭ instead of Kansas, and not just becomes a proud Soviet ☭ and government lackey and propaganda symbol for the Soviet government ☭, but also becomes a close friend or protégé of Stalin himself. He even kills Stalin at one point during the story. Also, Batman’s Russian too for some reason? I don’t know what’s that about. So, even back in 2003 when Superman: Red Son came out, people were already making the connection between S...

(This is the poster for Predator: Killer of Killers .)   Well, this isn’t what I expected to come out of the Predator franchise after Prey (2022). An animated anthology film from the same director as Prey (2022). I think a lot of people when they first saw this trailer, initially thought that it was a series, sort of like Marvel’s What If…? , but when they realized that it was a movie and an anthology movie at that, they got a little bit more intrigued. We have not had an animated Predator project of any kind, movie or otherwise until now.          (This is the cover art for Predator: Concrete Jungle .)           The closest thing we’ve gotten to something approximating that before Predator:   Killer of Killers are the video games, specifically the Predator game called Predator: Concrete Jungle . Where you actually play as a Predator (Yautja is their actual species name) as he must go back to Earth 🌎 after he was banishe...